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Organization Design and Engineering for Dynamic Fit: Toward Analytic Principles, Methods and Tools

In: Organization Design and Engineering

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  • Mark E. Nissen

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Fit has long represented a central concept in organization design (Burns and Stalker, 1961; Donaldson, 2001; Lawrence andLorsch, 1967; Lawrence and Lorsch, 1986; Woodward, 1965). But, both research and practice alike maintain a static focus on fit, a focus that is incommensurate with the fundamentally dynamic nature of organizations and their environ- ments (Nissen and Burton, 2011). Organization designs need to address the dynamic fit, and the corresponding organizations need to be engi- neered to establish and maintain such a fit — proactively and reactively alike — over time and through both planned and unplanned change.

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  • Mark E. Nissen, 2014. "Organization Design and Engineering for Dynamic Fit: Toward Analytic Principles, Methods and Tools," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Rodrigo Magalhàes (ed.), Organization Design and Engineering, chapter 2, pages 39-73, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-35157-9_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137351579_3
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